Chapter 226: The First Battle of Thunder (3)
"Well done!" Seeing Durant forced to pass the ball, Monty on the sidelines shouted: "Keep going like this!" ”
The Thunder's possession of the ball was converted back and forth, but under the Hornets' one-on-one single defense, there was no point suitable for shooting, and finally when the offensive time was approaching, Durant held the ball and made a quick stop jumper, and the shot was interfered with by Tony Allen, and Gasol grabbed the rebound.
The Thunder's offense didn't work, and then they found it difficult to get the fast-break counterattack they relied on to survive.
I have to say that Wang Meng's ability to control the court is really good, every time he attacks, he always grasps the time, even if the basketball can't be thrown, he will try his best to delay the time, and when Westbrook gets the basketball and wants to break fast, he will be stunned to find that the five players of the Hornets have retreated to the half court.
People have already returned to the defense, how can the fast attack be fought?
In this way, the Thunder's offense has completely entered a stage of stagnation, and they can only rely on the continuous singles of Westbrook and Durant to score, and on the Hornets side, Wang Meng kept hanging the ball to the inside, and Gasol and Oden shared the shots, beating Ibaka and Perkins to tears.
As a result, the scores between the two sides quickly widened, and by the time the Thunder head coach couldn't help but call a timeout, the Hornets had already led the Thunder by as much as eight points.
"Damn it! Coach, they're so fast! We can't fight fast at all! Westbrook sat down on the bench in annoyance and said to Brooks.
"It's not that they're quick to defend, it's that they're too efficient." Brooks looked around at the players around him and said, "It was my mistake, they had anticipated our tactical system and made a judgment based on it, but I didn't anticipate the opponent's tactics, or I didn't anticipate it." ”
The Thunder generals were silent, in the past few days, they had practiced a lot of how to defend Wang Meng and Gasol, but during the game, Wang Meng didn't even use a block with Gasol, just a simple drop ball to Gasol, if Gasol didn't enter the inside line, he handed the ball to Oden, anyway, just a word, everything was handed over to the inside line, which made the Thunder like a dog against a hedgehog, unable to speak.
Compared to the Thunder, the Hornets' bench is lively.
"Well done! You guys are amazing! Monty said excitedly: "So that we will be easy to play next, after a while, Wang Meng will continue to hand over the ball to Gasol to deal with, if Gasol is entangled in Ibaka, let Oden play, if both of them are strictly guarded, then it doesn't matter, let the two of them withdraw from the inside line in advance before 24 seconds, withdraw to the outside line for Wang Meng to block and dismantle, let Wang Meng grab three points, no matter whether the three points are scored or not, you all have to retreat as soon as possible, don't think about rebounding, as long as you don't let the Thunder play the fast break, Honestly fight with us, then we can win easily! Do you understand? ”
"Understood!" Wang Meng and the others replied imposingly.
After the timeout, Durant relied on his height advantage to shoot a three-pointer on Tony Allen's head on the outside, which eased the situation a little, but then Wang Meng handed the basketball to Gasol on the inside, and Gasol found that Ibaka's defense made him very uncomfortable after holding the ball, and knew that if he played hard, he would be reluctant, so he passed the ball out of the outside again.
Wang Meng received Gasol's pass and raised the ball high again, to drop the ball to Oden, who was carrying Perkins' request on the other side.
Westbrook's heart was slightly relieved, the task given to him by Brooks was very simple, as long as he stared at Wang Meng, so Wang Meng passed the ball out like this is what he likes to see the most.
Just when Westbrook's heart was slightly relieved, Wang Meng suddenly put the ball back, and then quickly broke through into the inside line.
Westbrook reacted half a beat slower, and by the time he caught up with Wang Meng, he was already half a position behind Wang Meng. "Oops!" Westbrook cursed incessantly, trying his best to catch up with Wang Meng.
At this time, Wang Meng suddenly made an emergency stop, jumped high on the spot, Westbrook was caught off guard and was suddenly thrown away by Wang Meng, he hurriedly made an emergency stop, and then jumped to try to interfere with Wang Meng, but it was too late, Wang Meng had already pushed the basketball in his hand out.
Wang Meng's emergency stop position is about the same distance as the basket from the free throw line, and the basketball naturally hits steadily when no one is defending.
Wang Meng glanced at Westbrook lightly, and that meaningful look made Westbrook almost crazy.
Westbrook didn't say a word, took the basketball and rushed to the Hornets. Wang Meng was not surprised when he saw this, he was not afraid of Westbrook's singles, he was afraid that he would not be fooled, Wang Meng was provoking Westbrook for half a day, just to make him lose his mind and fall into singles, when Westbrook played alone, he would never pass the ball.
Sure enough, after breaking through Wang Meng, Westbrook rushed straight into the inside, facing the oncoming Oden, Wei Shao did not have the slightest idea of wanting to pass the ball to Perkins, but instead faced Oden and made a layup, Wang Meng saw this behind Westbrook, jumped up happily, happy that he was about to get a second block.
Wei Shao is not stupid, he has long known that Wang Meng is plotting behind his back, when Wang Meng jumped up, he used his waist and abdomen hard, relying on his strong waist and abdomen strength, made a complete lever in the air, dodged Wang Meng's block, and then sent the basketball to the basket.
Westbrook's one-on-two shot looks very freehand, especially when his targets are Wang Meng and Oden, who are in the limelight, which shows his extraordinary strength with everyone Of course, if this goal is scored.
In fact, although Wei Shao's difficult pull-up layup dodged the defense of Wang Meng and Oden, the last task into the basket was not perfectly executed.
The basketball shook around the basket and then fell, and Oden jumped up to grab the rebound, and then handed it to Wang Meng.
Seeing this on the sidelines, Brooks slapped his forehead helplessly, even if he thought that Westbrook's goal would definitely go in, if that goal went in, it would undoubtedly be a very good encouragement for the momentum of the current Thunder team.
"What a pity!"
It's a pity that it's not just here, because of the strong pull rod, Wei Shao landed unsteadily and fell to the ground, and Wang Meng and others took the opportunity to quickly attack quickly, Wang Meng, Wallace and Allen were three to two in the frontcourt, and the Thunder was fast enough to defend only Durant and Seflosha.
Wang Meng controlled the ball and ran to the basket, and then jumped up in two and a half steps to dunk, Durant immediately came up to make up for the defense, Wang Meng waited until Durant was extremely close to him, and suddenly threw the basketball in his hand to the rebound, on the other side of the rebound, Wallace jumped with both feet and received the basketball in the air.
"Drink!" Wallace roared, and the strong air kept him in the air for a long time, and with that time, Wallace gathered enough strength to dunk the basketball into the basket with one hand.
"Boom!" The basket shook with Wallace's beastly power, as if it was about to fall at any moment.